男性應該使用感性的表情符號嗎？

Should Men Use Affectionate Emojis?
男性應該使用感性的表情符號嗎？

Men, you may want to think twice the next time you send a kissing face or heart-eyes emoji in a text message.

男人們，下次你在短信中發送吻臉或心心眼表情時，可能要三思了。
According to new research published in Frontiers in Psychology, the interpretation of emojis can vary drastically depending on the gender of the sender.
根據發表在《心理學前沿》雜誌上的一項新研究表明，表情符號的解釋可能因爲發送者的性別差異會有很大的不同。

To examine gender differences in emoji interpretation, psychologists at Southwestern University recruited 80 undergraduate students to take part in a short experiment. In this study, participants were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups.

爲了研究表情符號解讀中的性別差異，美國西南大學的心理學家招募了80名大學生參加一個簡短的實驗。 在這項研究中，參與者被隨機分配到四個實驗組。
They were asked to read and evaluate the contents of a text message. The text message, ostensibly sent from one coworker to another, read: "Hey Katie I'm sorry I couldn't come in yesterday. I'm feeling a lot better today though. Thanks for covering my shift."
他們被要求閱讀和評估短信的內容。 這條短信表面上是一個同事發給另一個同事的，上面寫着:"嘿，凱蒂，很抱歉我昨天沒能來上班。 不過我今天感覺好多了。 謝謝你幫我頂班。"

While the words in the text message did not differ between groups, the researchers systematically varied the perceived gender of the text message sender (Rebecca versus Steven) as well as the emojis displayed at the end of the message (smiling face versus kissing face and heart emoji).

雖然各組的短信中的單詞沒有差別，但研究人員系統地改變了文本發送者（瑞貝卡&史蒂芬）的感知性別以及消息末尾顯示的表情符號（微笑臉&親親&愛心）

In other words, participants either read the text message sent from Rebecca and ending in a smiling face, sent from Steven and ending in a smiling face, sent from Rebecca and ending in a kissing face and heart emoji, or sent from Steven and ending in a kissing face and heart emoji.
換句話說，參與者要麼看的是瑞貝卡發來的以微笑臉結尾的短信，或是史蒂芬發來的以微笑臉結尾的短信，又或是瑞貝卡發來的以親親和愛心符號結尾的短信，和史蒂芬發來的以親親和愛心符號結尾的短信。

Then, researchers asked participants to evaluate the appropriateness of the text message by indicating their level of agreement with the following statements:

緊接着，研究人員通過要求參與者們表明對以下幾種說法的贊同程度來評估短信的適當性